"fanclub, it's become a more commercial entity than a labour of passion." Passion, yes, like Stewart's drumming, Andy's playing and Sting's....singing. Yes, I miss the passion. I didn't renew my membership for the similar reasons. A steep price to pay for one DVD and access to a message board (which in my opinion should already be accessable to us). However, I really would love to have a DVD with Broken Music tour footage though. Is that for next year or this year? "unable to do anything without some corporate agreement from some office in the US..." Probably. I once felt, especially during The Police days, that we in the US were the step-children of fandom compared to those abroad. I remember at the time how much I longed to have the Police Files. Unfortunately, I wasn't a member of Outlandos, didn't find out about it until later on--even though I was a fan since '78. I was young though, but still. It seemed the club was not so oriented to the US, or was it just me? Anyway I finally acquired them all about twelve years ago. I love them, but would have loved them more back then. Now, it's kind of bitter-sweet to gaze at those pages and remember. Teri -- "Jason Sheldon" <jason@digital-solutions.co.uk> wrote: I myself found the fan club extremely disappointing value for money, so didn't renew after the first year. That's not to say that it IS poor value for money - I was probably expecting more for mine, My opinion, and not necessarily correct. J. -----Original Message----- From: jason=digital-solutions.co.uk@mailman.xmission.com Sent: 22 October 2005 18:48 Subject: [Police] Sting's fan club The best way to say you disagreement and total unsatisfaction of the way the club works as a mercantile enterprise is to mark your opposition by not renewing your account !! I think this is the only way to make ourselves